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Q1: Why is this article called the "Bath School disaster"? Shouldn't it be called a "massacre" or maybe "bombings", "attacks" or something else?

A1: "Disaster" is a historic term in this title. "Bath School disaster" is what the event's survivors called it, as did contemporaneous news accounts, historic documents, state markers, and memorials. Dictionaries and other reliable sources include man-made disasters alongside natural disasters in their definitions. Note that this topic has been discussed on this talk page many times since 2008: here, here, here, here, here, and here. A 2014 RfC re: "Bath School bombings" or "Bath School disaster" resulted in a consensus to keep the present title of Bath School disaster. Please review these discussions and prepare new reliable sources for consideration before initiating a new talk page discussion.

Bath School disaster is a featured article; it (or a previous version of it) has been identified as one of the best articles produced by the Wikipedia community. Even so, if you can update or improve it, please do so.

This article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page as Today's featured article on March 22, 2006, and on May 18, 2020.

Article milestones
Date	Process	Result
February 17, 2006	Peer review	Reviewed
March 7, 2006	Featured article candidate	Promoted
April 10, 2010	Featured article review	Demoted
January 15, 2013	Good article nominee	Listed
March 29, 2020	Featured article candidate	Promoted
Facts from this article were featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "On this day..." column on May 18, 2017, May 18, 2022, and May 18, 2024.
Current status: Featured article

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